Please include release plan and status in release announcements

[tflidd]

Regarding the release cycles, stability of features, that is an often recurring topic:

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@tlpthx

Having a big announcement with all the fancy new features while those are only available on the beta channel and some are not even released, yet - that does not seem like very good communication

Depends on how you do it. If you say the new version comes with these features …, currently the beta version is out and the final release is planned for xy, I don’t see a problem.

If a new feature does not work, checkout the forum, if others have the same issues, if yes, check to create a new bug report, if it is not or poorly documented, put a bug report on the documentation …